Irfan (Volume 1) IRFAAN 1

101-102

If a Mard Dervish flies in air (by levitation) but does not abide by Shariyat ,

He is still (at the Martaba ) of a housefly,

Do not trust on him even if he moves on water like a boat,

Because his action is (of the degree) of a straw!

[Zakariya Razi]

The entire Spiritualists and the experts on the Science of Psychology, especially the People of Spiritualism, who discuss about the conversations with the Spirits after their Haziraat in their Circles and Sitting and through which the People of Hypnotism make a subject fall into magnetic sleep and take different things done by his Inwardly Personality that is, the same Subtlety of the Nafs and the People of Mesmerism who show different Sifli Illusions. The pursuit of all wizards and magicians of the world is limited to this same inferior Subtlety of the Nafs. They do not go any farther than this point. Though these marvels of Nasoot are taken as marvelous upshots by the People of Temporal Corporeal approach but these things are of no worth even of the value of a wing of a mosquito. That is the reason that all these people with upshots of Nasoot are trading these illusions and marvels all around the world. In case they had even a little awareness about their Rightful Lord, they would have never sold this art in lieu of the temporal and inferior Dunya (World). Truth is this that all these Spiritualism, Hypnotism and Mesmerism of Europe are just immature buds of the garden of ordinary grade in the Islamic Tasawvuf. Mesmerism is the progenitor of Hypnotism. In Europe, this science shone most in Hungry and Australia.

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The first motivator of Mesmerism was Dr. (Franz Anton) Mesmer of Austria. He belonged to colony of Vienna. Hungry is that country in the Europe which was made the center of Spirituality by the Baktashi Sufis. The shrine of Hazrat Baba Gulshan Baktashi Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe is still a place visited by every common and proper person in Budapest. Not only Muslims but also Christians attend this place in great numbers in order to get their hopes. It is famous about Hazrat Baba Gulshan Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe that he relieved the patients of their ailment by caressing his hands on their bodies. There is a small spring near his tomb the water of which is considered elixir (Akseer) of diseases even these days. Haji Qandash Baktashi was the most popular Master of Karamat of Hungry. His sanctuary was in the town of Naghi Kanizsa in Hungry. Many Christians besides thousands of Muslims of Abi Sina used to attend his gathering. Famous Mushtariq Dr. Zowemer has written about Haji Qandish Baktashi while describing about his life that when some patient was brought before him, he used to blow the air of his mouth on that patient after reading some prayers and caressed his hands on his body making him lie straight and such person used to become healthy again within minutes. This was also famous about him that his amulet granted to a person had such effect that if such person had tied this amulet on his arm, the swords, knives and guns could not make any harm to him and Hazrat Haji used to cure the wounds of swords, knives and bullets by applying his saliva on these. And this was also famous about him that that person towards him he looked with browbeat (and admonition), that person used to fall unconscious and lose his control on him. That was the reason that respected Haji Qandish Baktashi used to often wear a veil on his face!

Dr. Mesmer came in focus in early Eighteenth Century. Same as many other Christians had entered the (Sufi) Order of Baktashi, Dr Mesmer had attachment (with devotional conation) with either Haji Qandish Baktashi or with some of his viceroys (spiritual descendants).